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Immortal Summer: a Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest: the 1897 Letters and Photographs of Amelia Hollenback : A Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest: the 1897 Letters and Photographs of Amelia Hollenback by Hollenback Amelia and Mary J. Straw Cook (2002, Trade Paperback)

Victorian women loosed upon the world is a subject that has fascinated armchair travelers and women's history buffs for decades. Immortal Summer is a seven-course meal to satisfy such appetites. Two sisters embark from Pennsylvania in search of soul-broadening experiences in the Indian Southwest, newly opened to intrepid travelers. Amelia Hollenback and her sister Josephine are no ordinary unfettered Victorians, however, for in addition to being courageous, well-educated, and serious students of life, they are also lucky. No less a guide than Charles Lummis, the inveterate traveler and great popularizer of the Southwest, advises them in their travels, and at Hopi they meet the day's most famous photographers and bring back rare images of this and other Indian lands that stand today as priceless pages from the travelogue of an America coming to terms with itself through its female adventurers. The Hollenback letters and photographs form the heart of this brilliantly reassembled grand tour from Ft. Leavenworth to the Grand Canyon, Hopiland, the pueblos of Zuni, Acoma, and Laguna, and assorted colorful spots along the way.

Book Title
Immortal Summer: a Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest: the 1897 Letters and Photographs of Amelia Hollenback : A Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest: the 1897 Letters and Photographs of Amelia Hollenback
Author
Hollenback Amelia, Mary J. Straw Cook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / West / General, United States / South / West South Central (Ar, La, Ok, Tx), United States / 19th Century, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Essays & Travelogues, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Travel, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
184 Pages

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